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Tom Senior

Feb 18, 2011

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This morning we watched the
Shogun 2
multiplayer trailer, our heads full of dreams of clan warfare and co-op domination. It's going to be epic. As we watched armies clashing on the battlefields of Japan, the last question on our minds was "I wonder what that smells like?" Fortunately, Scent Science were on hand to answer the questions that almost nobody was asking, with the announcement of their amazing
machine
that will let us smell our games. What will they think of next?

Virtual reality, perhaps? Once again, we've grabbed the most interesting tidbits of PC gaming news from around globe. Read on for virtual reality out of body experiences, a lecture from Gabe Newell, and a man with a head full of diamonds.

Gabe Newell holds an impromptu
video conference
with a high school class, and reveals a lot of fascinating facts and ideas about Valve's approach to making games, covering the success of the Team Fortress 2 item store, and the idea that disruptive players should be forced to watch ads, while players that draw communities together should be able to play for free.

This is a
text adventure
about a pacifist sheep trying to survive the Falklands War. The devs say "Rather predictably, it ended up being about the futility of war. But more than that, it is about the futility of being a sheep trying to stop that war.”

Today Graham and Tom continued yesterday's Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance robo-war. I couldn't tell who was winning, because there were too many damn explosions. Meanwhile Ed has been pitting Chaos against Chaos in Dawn of War: Retribution and I have been sitting quietly in a corner, folding origami paper planes and reading Sun Tzu in preparation for Shogun 2. As the wise warrior once said: "Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Then, and only then, will you be able to thouroughly pwn your oppenent," or something. What are you playing at the moment? As always, let us know in the comments.

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